'No other option': Afghans put trust in strangers from Missouri before harrowing escape to safety
The sun has just risen, and Timothy Griffin thinks he’s killed Shela Alokozai.
He’s sitting at his laptop in Jefferson City. He doesn’t know where she or her children are, but he can assume.
Griffin is a military man. He had worked as a counterinsurgency specialist for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. He understands what happens in these situations.
And so, when a suicide bomber detonates among a crowd outside the Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate, Griffin assumes the worst.
He’s sitting at his laptop in Jefferson City. He doesn’t know where she or her children are, but he can assume.
Griffin is a military man. He had worked as a counterinsurgency specialist for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. He understands what happens in these situations.
And so, when a suicide bomber detonates among a crowd outside the Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate, Griffin assumes the worst.
